Either war is obsolete, or men are.

I don't like war. I particularly don't like the celebration of war, which I think the administration is a little bit guilty of.

Ideas are far more powerful than guns. We don't let our people have guns. Why should we let them have ideas?

As soon as men decide that all means are permitted to fight an evil, then their good becomes indistinguishable from the evil that they set out to destroy.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

If you try to cure evil with evil you will add more pain to your fate.

How do you defeat terrorism? Don’t be terrorized.

There is no instance of a nation benefiting from prolonged warfare

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

Do not let us speak of darker days; let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.

There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Battles are lost in the same spirit in which they are won.

A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

A war between Europeans is a civil war.

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.

You can not lead a battle if you think you look silly on a horse.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.